The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-07-30


Trinity p 3. Church, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Sunday at II a. m. and p. M; Wednesday at
pm; Friday, Bible Reading, at p. m. Luther
vile on Sunday, at 4SO p. m.
Eutaao II. p. Church, aarford Road.-Preachin
every Sunday, by the pastor, Rev. j. NJ. Gill, a
IL a. m. All invited.
EPSON M. p. Church, T0wsontOwn.-P reachin!
on Sunday, by the pastor, Rev. J. L; Elderdice
at 1890 a. m. Prayer meetings every Sunday anC
Tuesday nights, at o'clock.
It is expected that the new water works a
Gainesville will be in operation by the 1st o
September.
The culvert across Charles street avenue il
the hollow below the toll gate was carried ava,
by the flood of Saturday afternoon last
The Towson Guards start for Hagerstowr
at o'clock on Monday evening next and expec
to return Tuesday evening, August 9Th.
The Towsontown artesian well has now
reached a depth of about 300 feet, but without
striking sufficiently strong stream of water.
The Towson Guards will hold their annual
tournament and picnic in Chew's woods, on the
east side of Towsontown, Wednesday, August
oath.
On Tuesday last express train on the
Northern Central road ran and killed two
horses belonging to William Brooks, Sr, OF Wood
berry.
Mr. N. R. Dorsey, justice of the peace, OF
Hampton, Falls road, was knocked down by a
horse on Saturday night last and painfully IN
jured. !.
WIN. Cunningham has been committed to
Jail here on the charge of breaking into vacant
house of Mr.. Henry Shirk, Sr., on Oak street, in
the Belt.
From the 1st to the 9th of July about ST
inches of rain fell in the vicinity of Baltimore,
which is nearly double the average rainfall for the
month of July.
The camp-meeting at Summit Grove on
the Northern Central Railroad, commenced on
Thursday. The camp will be larger this year
than ever before.
The annual harvest home festival at the
Rocks of Deer Creek, Maryland Central railroad,
will be held on Thursday and Friday of next week,
August 4th and 9Th.
The COMPTROLLER of the Currency, Wash
ington, has approved the Traders National Bank
of Baltimore as reserve agent for the Towson Ma
tional Bank of this place.
The barn of James Stevenson, in the lower
end of the 18th district, was blown down by the
storm on Saturday afternoon last, killing one mule
and badly crippling another.
-Messrs Henry W. and William S. Archer
are the executors named in the will of their late
father, Hon. Henry W. Archer. The estate is a
very large one and goes to his wife and children.
On the 4th of last July Mr.. James Smith,
of Fallston, Maryland Central road, who is "a
years of age, Graded three acres of wheat, most
extraordinary performance for veteran OF that
age.
-Messrs. P A. & S. Small, well known bust
ness men of York, Pa, say the average yield OF
wheat in that county for the present season will
be about bushels per acre. Last year the aver
age was Is bushels.
-Messrs Gambrill Sons Co., of WOodberry,
are about completing a felt factory their
Druid Mill in that place. The new building is 40
by rs feet, two stories high and will manufacture
felt for roofing purposes.
The colored people having been unable to
secure Chew's woods for their camp-meeting, will
hold it in the bush meeting grove on the Hillen
road about half mile below Towsontown. The
meeting opened on Friday.
Mr. George T. Butler, who was a brother of
ex-Sheriff Samuel F. Butler, of Towsontown, died
in Baltimore, on Wednesday, aged GO years. He
was a veteran of the Mexican war and at one time
was q member of the city police force.
Mr.. P. B. Pollard, formerly we'll known
livery stable keeper in Baltimore, lately purchased
in Detroit, the trotting horse ~. o." for which
he is said to have paid SIC. 900. This horse is
seven years old and has a record of 1921.
"A farmer on the line of the Maryland Gen.
trail railroad talks of bringing suit against the
company on the ground that they run their trains
so slow that the cars shade his corn and keep it
from growing as fast as it otherwise would.
During the storm on Saturday afternoon
last lightning struck of the chimneys on the
residence of Mrs. Crocker on Charles street avenue
at Cold Spring lane, and demolished it. No fur
Their damage was done and nobody was hurt.
One hilarious fellow from the Sth district,
who imbibed too much Towsontown "enthusiasm"
on Monday, thought he was running the conven-
ton. Somebody else didn't think so, and the Sth
district man went to JAIL but only for few hours.
The county bridge at Evergreen Station,
on the Maryland Central railroad, carried
away by the flood of last Saturday afternoon,
even the abutments being demolished The small
bridge at Guilford, short distance below was
also demolished.
The statement of County Treasurer Hebb
for the month of June makes the following ex-
hibit Cash on hand May 31st, $157, 455.O2; re-
ceipts from all sources during the month, S5l 1885,,
81; disbursements, Sill SASH balance on hand
July LIST, 500, 943.2S.
"A well known contractor and builder was
in Towsontown on Thursday, looking around for
lots either to lease or purchase, with view to
building houses upon them. He was well pleased
with what he saw and it is hoped that he may
carry out his project.
The roads in the lower end of the county
have been greatly damaged by the late heavy
rains. A number of bridges and culverts were
carried away washed out and it will cost large
sum of money to replace them and put the roads
in their former good condition.
Mr.. Chas. o. Kemp, formerly deputy sheriff
under VIM. A. Slade, also keeper Of the aims
house and marshal of the county police, is lying
at the point of DEATH at his residence in Govans-
town, suffering from Bright's disease and other
troubles. DR.. j. H. Jarrett is his physician.
The great storm of Saturday, July 10th,
was followed by heavy rains nearly every day or
night since, accompanied by intensely disagreed
BILE weather. The thermometer did not reach a
very high point, but the moisture in the atmos-
phere made the heat oppressive and caused great
deal of suffering.
The Towsontown NJ. E. Sunday school held
its annual picnic in Ridgely's mill-dam woods,
on Tuesday last, and Notwithstanding the intense
heat pleasant day was spent. A large number
of the members of Dulany's Valley M. E. school
were present upon invitation and shared in the
enjoyments of the day.
The railroad which extends from Bayview
Junction to Sparrow's Point, the site of the new
steel works in the 10Th district has been incorpor
ated, the capital stock being S15O,000. The incor
porators are George Small, Jacob II. Taylor and
N. P. Bond, of Baltimore, and L. S. Bent and
F. W. Wood, of Steelton, Pa.
The examiners appointed to view Cold
Spring lane, extending from the York road to
Charles street avenue, met on the premises on
Thursday. The object is to widen the lane to a
uniform width of sixty feet, straighten and grade
it, and it is understood that the report will be fav
orable to the projected improvement.
Mr.. George w. Yellott, who was a candi
date for County Treasurer in the 18th district,
claims that his defeat was not fairly accomplish
ed and in the convention on Monday he fled a
protest against the seating of the delegation from
that district. The protest went to the committee
on credentials, and that was the last heard of it.
Mr.. Thomas e. Parett, who formerly con-
Quoted the horse and carriage bazaar on Calvert
street, and who resides on the Frederick road
near Gainesville, was stricken with paralysis sew
eral weeks ago and more recently he had a second
attack which rendered him unconscious. Mr..
Parlett has many relatives and friends in Balti-
more county.
The guy ropes which support the derrick at
the railroad trestle in Towsontown, hang so low
that they may yet be the cause of serious acct
dent. The one over the pike caught a horse at
tached to buggy, on Sunday night last. Fortu.
nately the gentlemen were driving slow at the
time, otherwise there is no telling what might have
been the result.
Next falls election will give the people
practically new deal in Baltimore county and thi!
will necessarily be followed by large number o.
changes in the subordinate Offices. The number
of men who will be on the anxious bench from now
until the "grand change" is ordered would make
small army, the largest proportion of which il
doomed to disappointment.
One of the county policemen who attended
the Democratic convention here on Monday, wa'
so much overcome at the turn affairs had taken
and so thoroughly saturated with perspiratior
and-so forth, that he hung himself on q paline